Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some significant Zoe against Zeri counter stats that may help you distinguish the differences between this set of champions. Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zeri’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Zeri..
Zoe usually has a similar longest kill spree as her enemy does. Typically, she takes less damage than Zeri. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zoe usually loses when facing off against Zeri, with a 45.7% win rate. Thus, Zoe makes a poor counter for Zeri.
While Zoe does have a much lower winrate compared to Zeri, when they face off with one another, Zoe also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Zoe into Zeri.
Furthermore, Zoe also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zeri. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Zeri matchups, Zeri is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Zoe is a terribly counter for Zeri. Focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Zoe against Zeri.
If you would like to truly master Zoe to counter Zeri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe most often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Zeri. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Zoe versus Zeri build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better vs Zeri than with most other typical builds. In fact, Zoe boasted an average win rate of 45.7% battling Zeri with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Zeri as Zoe, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Zoe vs Zeri matchups, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.7% win rate overall.
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